Going public: This new report highlights six key trends driving the IPO surge August 10, 2021 | Sponsored While we’ve all been shut indoors for a year and a half, quite the opposite has been happening with the public markets. Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) grew 51 percent in 2020, and the trend is continuing into 2021, as worldwide exchanges continue to flash the new ticker symbols of recently minted publicly traded companies. Intralinks’ [...]
SoftBank to pause investment in China as tech crackdown withers shares August 10, 2021 SoftBank will take a “wait and see” approach and pause its investments in Chinese tech startups until Beijing’s current regulatory crackdown on the sector calms, chief executive Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday. Son hoped the situation will be resolved and new rules for the sector would be introduced within “a year or two”, but still [...]
Investors turn to overlooked data sources to assess firms’ ESG credentials August 8, 2021 A lack of publicly available information on companies’ ESG credentials is prompting investors to turn to overlooked sources to acquire data, new research shared exclusively with City A.M. reveals. Read more: Regulation and investors’ demands push fund managers towards ESG Figures from MBH Corporation shows 89 per cent of UK based professional investors think employee [...]
FCA approves James Hay’s Nucleus acquisition, creating £47bn mega-platform August 6, 2021 Pensions provider James Hay gained the nod of approval from the UK’s financial regulator for its £145m acquisition of investment platform Nucleus, in one of the biggest UK deals in years. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approved Hay’s purchase of Nucleus on Friday, paving the way for their creation of a mammoth financial adviser platform [...]
Mitigating litigation risk: The impact of corporate social performance factors August 3, 2021 | City Talk Much has been written on the merits of ESG investing strategies and their ability to deliver comparable, if not superior, performance to traditional benchmarks. A majority of institutional investors are motivated to employ ESG investing strategies because they believe ESG will improve risk adjusted returns1, yet the circumstances in which ESG leads to better outcomes [...]
What does China’s stock market meltdown mean for investors? August 2, 2021 | City Talk Chinese markets have hit headlines again in recent weeks. Geopolitical tensions surrounding trade remain, but market behavior and performance – particularly in the tech sector – has also come to the fore. We asked Tom Wilson, Schroders’ Head of Emerging Market Equities, what’s causing the upset. The Chinese government seems to be cracking down on [...]
Robinhood shares slide below offer price on Wall Street debut July 29, 2021 Shares in popular trading platform Robinhood slumped below their offer price immediately after their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, in a lacklustre start to one of this year’s most anticipated IPOs. In what signalled slack investor demand for the online brokerage – which exploded in popularity during the pandemic amid retail investor appetite – shares fell [...]
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Tech stocks – slow-down or slump? July 27, 2021 | Sponsored With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the shift towards a digital-first world; technology stocks rose to all-time highs in 2020, as people spent more time online.1 However, as economies have begun to reopen following the rollout of highly effective coronavirus vaccines; tech stocks sold-off as investors rotated towards sectors set to benefit from reopening. In this [...]